System Development Engineer, Keya

Application deadline: Aug 3 2026

The Keya team owns and operates the Customer Experience (CX) services that power AWS User Experience Products and Platforms (UXP2) Documentation and SDKs within US Government dedicated cloud partitions. We are responsible for the scaling reliability and regional expansion of these servicesensuring that AWSs government customers have a seamless secure and performant experience across console SDK and documentation touchpoints.

Key job responsibilities
Our work spans the breadth of AWS: from build automation and service operations to development of tools that accelerate region launches and maintain experience parity across dedicated cloud environments.

Our work spans the breadth of AWS: from build automation and service operations to development of tools that accelerate region launches and maintain experience parity across dedicated cloud environments.

We are looking for a System Development Engineer I to help us build scale and operate critical services that directly impact how US Government customers interact with AWS. Youll work on a collaborative geographically distributed team that values autonomy ownership and technical depth.

A day in the life
No two days on Keya look the samebut heres what a typical day might look like:

You are a builder who thrives on solving real-world problems at scale. Youre comfortable operating in ambiguity you take ownership of outcomes (not just tasks) and youre energized by the challenge of keeping critical systems running reliably for customers who depend on them. You bring strong technical fundamentals a bias for automation over manual work and the curiosity to learn new systems quicklybecause on Keya youll touch a lot of them.

You start your morning reviewing service dashboards and alarms checking the health of the CX services your team owns across dedicated cloud partitions. After standup with your distributed team you dive into a design document for a new automation that will cut a manual region-launch task from hours to minutes.

Mid-morning you pair with a teammate to debug a latency spike in one of your APIstracing the issue across service boundaries identifying a misconfigured retry policy and pushing a fix through your CI/CD pipeline. After lunch you join a cross-team architecture review with engineers from another AWS service team providing input on how their changes will interact with your services in government partitions.

Later in the afternoon youre writing codemaybe building a new CloudWatch alarm integration extending an internal CLI tool or implementing a feature on your teams roadmap. You wrap up the day by updating your design doc based on feedback from a senior engineer and queuing up a code review for tomorrow.

- Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Systems Engineering Electrical Engineering or other related discipline
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby
- Experience tools for automation (building testing releasing or monitoring)
- Current active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance

- Bachelors degree or above in Computer Science Computer Engineering Systems Engineering Electrical Engineering or other related discipline
- Knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as C C Java or Perl
- Experience coding scripting automating in at least one language (e.g. Python C C Java Ruby or PowerShell)
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Current active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CO Denver - 99100.00 - 160000.00 USD annually